Going through the slides about how your preference in food developed over time from when before you were born was very interesting. Reading about how when a pregnant mother eats carrots, the baby then tastes the carrot flavor through the breast milk changed my perspective on eating while pregnant. In my theory, I would assume that whatever you eat, the baby becomes familiar with and ends up liking it too. For example, if a pregnant mother were to eat pickles all the time, the baby would love pickles as well as they grew older and began to eat. Now I feel that mothers should be careful about what they consume in their bodies while pregnant.
I also find that the food that you eat while you are hungry can be trained into craving healthy foods when hungry because the foods you eat while you are hungry are more preferred than the foods you eat when aren't as hungry. So when I feel like I'm starving and I think about how I want to eat a burger or McDonalds, I can eat something healthier instead so my cravings for the fast food aren't as strong for when I'm starving in the future.
I found it very interesting that babies are able to taste certain things when breastfeeding, and I found it very enlightening that they are able to have a connection to food so early in their lives. Food is a huge part of my life and of everybody else's in the world. It is so interesting that babies have such a connection to food and the mother, the mother having the connection to what the baby prefers later in their lives. I do find myself craving fast food sometimes, but as you say, this is most likely because I only go to these fast food restaurants because I am starving, tying that craving back to fast food.
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